Bare It All with Linnsey

In this deeply personal episode of Bare It All with Linnsey, Linnsey invites her daughter Melanie to talk about what it was really like growing up in the middle of her addiction.

The two sit down and open up about the moments that hurt, the loyalty and love that held them together, and what forgiveness looks like from the child’s perspective.

They talk about how addiction touches everyone in the family, the quiet burdens kids carry, and how healing is possible on both sides. It’s a candid conversation and a reminder that no matter how messy the past gets, families can still grow, heal, and come back stronger.

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Linnsey Dolson:

So many times we talk about the addict or the alcoholic went through, but rarely do we actually talk about the kids caught in the crossfire.

Melanie Madison:

When you're a little kid whose mother was a drug addict, you always are the one who holds out that hope. You know she's gonna get sober, everything is gonna be okay.

Linnsey Dolson:

For your first years, nine years of life, you only knew me as an addict.

Melanie Madison:

One time you forgot to pick me up from school, I had to actually go into the office and they had to call my aunt, your sister, to come off work early to come pick me up.

Linnsey Dolson:

I think the kids go through just as much as the adults. So what advice can you give to kids out there who are either still going through their parents in addiction Oh, wow. Or what about like forgiving parents for things that that happened in their addiction?

Linnsey Dolson:

Welcome to Bare It All With Linnsey, you guys. Today, I have the best guest.

Linnsey Dolson:

My perfect, beautiful, wonderful, talented daughter, Melanie. So many times, we talk about addiction and alcoholism and we talk about everything the addict or the alcoholic went through. But rarely do we actually talk about the kids caught in the crossfire. There's so many kids every single day that are dragged through hell because of people's addiction, their alcoholism. And today, Melanie is brave enough to come on here and talk about her journey and struggles with being in the crossfire of my addiction.

Linnsey Dolson:

So welcome, Melanie.

Melanie Madison:

Thank you so much for having me, mom. I'm so excited to be here.

Linnsey Dolson:

She's so cute. I can I can't believe I made that? What's this? Seriously, like God hooked me up. Oh, God hooked me up with an amazing mom.

Linnsey Dolson:

Mhmm. I love you so much.

Melanie Madison:

I love you.

Linnsey Dolson:

I've been sober ten years. And Melanie is 19, which means that nine years of Melanie's life, I was in my meth addiction. And and Melanie definitely went through a lot going through that. And so I kind of figured we would let start at maybe we would start at the beginning. So okay.

Linnsey Dolson:

Let's do it. Melanie will tell you. Melanie, what did I smell like in my addiction?

Melanie Madison:

Oh, my God. She had this puffy white jacket that smelled like cigarettes, she would cover it with

Linnsey Dolson:

From the auction. From the auction.

Melanie Madison:

From the auction, she would cover it with LoveSpell perfume, like soak herself in it, shower in it, and then come say hi to me.

Linnsey Dolson:

So basically, stale cigarettes And LoveSpell perfume. So a while ago, I bought some love actually, my sister got it for me for Christmas, Love Spell and I was wearing it, and Melanie comes up and goes, you smell like you ten years ago. And I was like, wait, what?

Linnsey Dolson:

And I was like, oh my god. I wore this in my addiction.

Melanie Madison:

Yep. Smell triggers memory.

Linnsey Dolson:

That yes. Smells trigger memory. Yeah. That totally triggered your memory. And so I figured like we could kinda back up.

Linnsey Dolson:

So I talk openly about about my struggles. My kids know. Because not only do I share it with them, they went through it with me. They've seen it firsthand. And you know, Melanie were very open with the story that when I gave birth to Melanie, she was taken from the hospital, went with my mom.

Linnsey Dolson:

Yes. And then I moved in with my mom when Melanie was about six months. So I still lived with the kids with my mom, but I was so bad in my addiction that I was all over the place. And so I wanted to give you just a little bit to talk a few minutes about like the early years, like maybe what age you started noticing like, hey, maybe it's a little weird that my grandma's having to be my main mom or that my mom doesn't do stuff she says she's gonna do or talk a little bit about that.

Melanie Madison:

Yeah. So growing up with that, I remember you always were there, we would do crafts together and it was always really fun. But I remember growing up say like school events events, you know, wanting you to be there and you telling me and promising me you'll be there and then holding out that hope that, oh my gosh, she's gonna show up and then you not showing up. Or I remember one time you forgot to pick me up from school and so I had to actually go into the office and they had to call my aunt, your sister, to come off work early to come pick me up from the office, the principal's office.

Linnsey Dolson:

Oh my goodness. I remember that that moment. I I remember that.

Melanie Madison:

And I remember I tried to call you afterwards. I went and I wasn't getting any answer. And also you deal with like a lot of people telling trying to tell you like they're not gonna show up. I remember my grandma would sadly talk a lot of bad about you and that hurt my feelings. So I'm like, no, that's my mama.

Melanie Madison:

I'm like, that's my mom. Right. And so it's like one of those things when you're a little kid who's mother was a drug addict, you always are the one who holds out that hope. Like, no, she's gonna get sober. No, I know something is going on.

Melanie Madison:

I don't fully understand what's going on, but I know something is going on. But you wanna hold out that hope like everything is gonna be okay.

Linnsey Dolson:

Well, that's the only mom like you ever knew. So for your first years, nine years of life, you only knew me as an addict. Yeah. So either I was like, woo, it's weekend, let's build Legos all in the middle of the night and fast food. And let's go to Taco Bell in the middle of the night because I was tweaking like the fun parts, but then where you talk about like not picking you up from school or like not being there, I remember like that exact moment. And I remember that I was actually at the dealer's house waiting. And I was like dope sick. And I fell asleep waiting.

Linnsey Dolson:

And I remember waking up. And when the the drug dealer finally got there the next day and like I got high and like I was finally functioning again. And then I looked at my phone and I had like all these voice mails that the office was calling that I left you waiting there. That happened another time where like it was lunch with your parent day.

Melanie Madison:

Yeah. The loved one lunch.

Linnsey Dolson:

Oh, this still this still. I have done so many therapy sessions around this one. Like, this no. This one kills me, is you waiting there, it was lunchtime.

Melanie Madison:

And seeing like all the parents with their kids and-

Linnsey Dolson:

Everyone brought lunch. She didn't have lunch that day because she was waiting for me to bring her lunch and I was passed out or waiting for dope at the dope man's house. And I never came. And this baby waited until all the kids went back in the classroom hoping that I would be there and and I never came and oh, my god. It just kills me. But these are the things like the heartbreaks that the kids talk about. You talk about like wanting to hold out hope and you're so freaking incredible and beautiful and smart and just just amazing. And it's like, it didn't you didn't even let it affect you.

Linnsey Dolson:

And you know the thing is is like your kids are your number one fan.

Melanie Madison:

We really are.

Linnsey Dolson:

After like all these I mean, I was arrested in front of you.

Melanie Madison:

Yep.

Linnsey Dolson:

How many times? And Melanie would get pissed.

Melanie Madison:

I yelled at the officers.

Linnsey Dolson:

She would get pissed. She'd be so don't take my mom.

Melanie Madison:

Like, yeah.

Linnsey Dolson:

It's horrible. Horrible that shit.

Melanie Madison:

I remember like an officer like was holding me back like yeah.

Linnsey Dolson:

Yeah. Because they don't understand. They don't know. And it's like all these years, I mean, she was still like my number one fan.

Linnsey Dolson:

I mean, I remember you telling me how beautiful I was and I looked like shit.

Melanie Madison:

And you so are beautiful to me.

Linnsey Dolson:

Missing teeth, I probably smelled horrific because I'd been up for six days. Probably like smelling like stale cigarettes in the casino and everything else. And like, you were just so precious and you'd just climb up on my lap and just tell me how beautiful I was and how much I love you know, you love me. And that just shows that kids like, they just see the good and they don't under you know, they don't understand. And we were talking about this in the car how there's so many kids caught in the crossfire because first off, addicts tend to have more kids than the average person.

Melanie Madison:

Oh, for sure.

Linnsey Dolson:

And why? Because most of them are in their addiction, so they're not really responsible.

Melanie Madison:

Not using condoms.

Linnsey Dolson:

They're definitely not- Oh my god. Hearing you say that word, stop it. That's weird. Ew. No.

Melanie Madison:

Not using condoms.

Linnsey Dolson:

How do you know what those are?

Melanie Madison:

Not using birth control.

Linnsey Dolson:

Right. Not using birth control. They're overly sexually active. Yeah. All of these things.

Linnsey Dolson:

So it's not abnormal for addicts to have four, five, six, seven, eight kids and really not have custody of any of them.

Melanie Madison:

Yep.

Linnsey Dolson:

Keep having kids and then go they go into the system and they go into the system. And we hear about the the alcoholic and the addict and their struggles, but what about the babies in the crossfire? Like what about the Melanys and the your brothers? And I don't wanna say their names. And I mean, everybody knows who my boys are, but until they're ready to share their journey.

Melanie Madison:

That's their story. Right. And that's their path.

Linnsey Dolson:

And our family's super close. We all my kids, like I'm obsessed with my children.

Melanie Madison:

We are very close to each other. We are. We are.

Linnsey Dolson:

But Melanie is so brave like like talking about this because some of it could be like embarrassing. And so these kids are caught in the crossfire and nobody really talks about, like, just all the Even now, we still have certain things like my mom is on her birth certificate. So when I gave birth, and if you follow my story, which I do my story time, I gave birth to Melanie. I had no prenatal care, went to the hospital, gave birth. She was born pos-tox.

Linnsey Dolson:

They took her straight from the hospital. And like now, Melanie, you know, she started asking me like, hey mom, where's my baby book? Like, do you have ultrasound pictures of me? Like, how talking about

Melanie Madison:

I think I started asking that when I was like 16. I remember that.

Linnsey Dolson:

No. Younger. Little younger than that.

Melanie Madison:

Younger. You're right. Yeah. Yeah.

Linnsey Dolson:

When I first started getting sober and it was when Maddie was born and I was putting together Maddie's book.

Melanie Madison:

Oh, I do remember that. And I was 10 and I was asking you.

Linnsey Dolson:

Yeah. Exactly. About 10 and she's like, well, where's my stuff? And and pictures at the hospital and and I didn't have any of that. And it was like, I remember you being born and it's like the most view I had four boys and then God gave me this little girl.

Linnsey Dolson:

And I remember looking at you and you're just the most beautiful, precious little thing. And I was so out of it and so bad in my addiction that, like, I was so far from reality and I just kept going, okay, well, I'll get her back later. I'll get her back later. I just need to get things. And it just like the years flew by, you know?

Linnsey Dolson:

Yeah. But let's okay. Let's fast forward for when I'm going to rehab. So this is how down my children are with me. So finally, when I was about six months pregnant with Madeline

Melanie Madison:

Yep.

Linnsey Dolson:

I went into rehab. Well, who went with me to rehab?

Melanie Madison:

Me and my brother went with you to rehab.

Linnsey Dolson:

Yes. Johnny and Melanie went with me to Progress House.

Melanie Madison:

All the winter breaks, all the spring breaks, we were there with you.

Linnsey Dolson:

Oh my god. They were so loyal. These kids knew all the AA saints. They used to sit in groups with me.

Linnsey Dolson:

You were so loyal. My precious babies, so loyal. So that just shows you like how much kids just love you so much. And I remember

Melanie Madison:

You're our world, mom.

Linnsey Dolson:

telling Melanie, like apologizing to Melanie. And, you know, I was apologizing to you and and you're like, you were so little early on. This was like in rehab and you're like, for what? And you were just so just kind of like oblivious. Like, no, you're a great mom.

Linnsey Dolson:

And so it's like oblivious to it and it it's just that love. Right? And it's just We see you. So what advice can you give to kids out there who are either still going through their parents in the addiction or what about like forgiving parents for things that that happened in their addiction.

Linnsey Dolson:

Right? Because there-

Melanie Madison:

Oh, for sure. Yeah.

Linnsey Dolson:

-has to be you have spent a long time with my mom having to be your main mom, which you, you know, my mom's a little bit that's a whole different story.

Melanie Madison:

That's a whole different story. In itself.

Linnsey Dolson:

Oh, Yeah. But that wasn't easy living with her. My mom's got some like mental health issues.

Melanie Madison:

It was rough living with her.

Linnsey Dolson:

Yeah. And so, you know, those things or like the stuff you went through with that or even like to sign you up for school. We had to have my mom there because when they terminated my parental rights, they destroyed the original birth certificate and created a new one with my mom because she adopted you.

Melanie Madison:

Until I turned 18, you like we had to do everything through her.

Linnsey Dolson:

Everything through her. So even eight, nine years sober, I still had to walk into the high school and be like, hey, well, I'm a biological mom but my mom so it's like all these things still followed us. It really did. And I was telling Mel, I'm like, you coming out and talking about this is gonna set the way for so many kids who have struggled with this, who have dealt with this. And so given do you have a little bit advice for people or kids that are maybe still going through it?

Melanie Madison:

Oh, yeah.

Linnsey Dolson:

Or have gone through it and about like maybe forgiving your parents and and

Melanie Madison:

For sure.

Linnsey Dolson:

Come to terms with those things and all of that.

Melanie Madison:

Absolutely. So forgiveness on its own, like, that is one's own journey. For sure, your own journey on realizing, looking through the pages. But my biggest advice for everyone out there for kids my age or younger or older who has a parent who is a drug addict or any type of addict is that is not them. That is truly not them.

Melanie Madison:

That is the drugs. That is the alcohol. And that is not who they are as a person. What helped me is looking at your being and who you are as a person, mom. Who you are who you are as a person was not that.

Melanie Madison:

When I looked at you, I didn't see the cigarettes. I didn't see the cigarettes covered up with love spell. I didn't see

Linnsey Dolson:

Oh, man.

Melanie Madison:

Oh, man. I didn't see like all the past. I didn't see the drugs. I didn't even care about the red and blue lights arresting you.

Linnsey Dolson:

What about us getting pulled over all the time?

Melanie Madison:

Oh, pull all the time. Getting pulled over. All the tickets. I remember I always like that the officers had stickers. I'd always ask for stickers though. Okay. Because mom never had a license. Because I had kids in the car so a lot of times they would just let me go but never Yes. But my advice is I didn't see all that mom, I saw you. And I encourage that through everyone who has a parent like that is look at their being.

Melanie Madison:

And forgiveness, it's its own self journey. Like me, personally, I'm very religious. I'm a Christian woman. And so I found my forgiveness through reading the bible and going to church and kinda talk and talking to God. And God really brought you from where you were to where you are now 100%.

Melanie Madison:

So clinging on to something, me, it was religion and that's really what helped me find my forgiveness. And so I just give everyone that encouragement to find something to help you heal. It's healing is one's own self journey. It really is. It really is.

Linnsey Dolson:

And me and Mel and you know, Maddie and the kids like we the boys are grown. My four boys are already grown. My oldest actually runs my cleaning company in Northern California. He's a manager there.

Linnsey Dolson:

Yes. So cute.

Melanie Madison:

My brother.

Linnsey Dolson:

Aw, he's so cute. But it's like, I remember that being on the couch in the rehab and like manifesting it.

Linnsey Dolson:

I'm like, okay. I was a shitty mom the first half of life, but I am gonna be the best mom I could possibly be going forward. And I'm so close to my kids. I mean, me and Mel are so close. We argue, but we're mom and daughter.

Melanie Madison:

What mom and daughter don't argue. Right.

Linnsey Dolson:

If someone being that close to you all the time, but like, I'm just so I'm just so incredibly in love with you and everything about you, it's just like, I'm pretty annoying actually. She'll be in a room and I'll open her door and she's like, what? And I'm just like, I freaking love you. Like, love you. Like, you're you're my daughter, and I get to be your mom.

Linnsey Dolson:

She's like, okay. I know.

Melanie Madison:

I'm like, I love you.

Linnsey Dolson:

Oh my god. But it's just like those moments. And so

Linnsey Dolson:

Spurts of energy.

Linnsey Dolson:

Now looking at our life, no one would ever know the shit we went through.

Melanie Madison:

Oh, no one.

Linnsey Dolson:

We live a pretty good life. We live in San Diego. We travel all the time.

Melanie Madison:

We have successful careers.

Linnsey Dolson:

Yes. Melanie is a music or singer songwriter, which we're gonna get into in a little bit. And so it just shows as well that no matter what you've been through in life, whether you're the addict or alcoholic yourself, or you're the child caught in the crossfire, the innocent child caught in the crossfire. I mean, this can show you how much you do things in your addiction that you would never do. Now, what do I do?

Linnsey Dolson:

Okay. If Melanie tells me someone's mean to him or her, I'm like, oh my god, who was it? Like, I wanna go kill him.

Melanie Madison:

Oh my gosh.

Linnsey Dolson:

Sure. If we're on a trip and like somebody's smoking weed like too close to my kids because that happens everywhere these days.

Melanie Madison:

She'll like scream.

Linnsey Dolson:

I'll go like, get out of here. But yet to think that I had this most perfect, precious little baby growing in my body, and I did drugs every single day. And it's just because you're so out of it. Like, you're so stuck in your addiction and you're numb and so far from reality.

Melanie Madison:

You're not in your head. Like drugs, it's lit it's an addiction. It really is a really bad addiction that haunts you and it destroys you and it doesn't make you, you. It really doesn't.

Linnsey Dolson:

It definitely you definitely lose who you are and you lose it. Even looking back, like Madeline. Madeline hears Madeline never knew me and my addiction because I got sober when I was six months pregnant with Madeline. So she only knew mom is sober. But she hears all of our stories and even when she was younger, she would ask like weird questions like, why didn't Melanie live with Nana?

Linnsey Dolson:

Yeah. Why all these weird questions like, what do you mean Nana had to adopt Melanie? Why didn't Nana adopt the boys? But then why did Nana is Nana gonna adopt me? Like, so many questions

Melanie Madison:

Like all these questions because she was innocent.

Linnsey Dolson:

Well, it was a unique dynamic.

Melanie Madison:

It was weird dynamic. True.

Linnsey Dolson:

It was. But she never had to really deal with that, but then she still sees it. Right? She understands or she knows like the mugshot pictures of me and stuff like that.

Melanie Madison:

She's seen those. We've seen those.

Linnsey Dolson:

I just I love that you're so brave to talk about it because it just I don't think there's enough, like, resources out there for kids to deal with it because I think the kids go through just as much as the adults. Like, even I would say that my oldest went through the most. Oh, He for was with me in my addiction. We were homeless.

Linnsey Dolson:

So like, he actually went hotel to hotel with me. Mhmm. And I remember like nodding out on like, I had been up for days and like nodded out and he was like three and wandered out of this like ghetto hotel and the cops Yeah. Found him like down the street and he showed him where I was and they had to like wake me up because I was like, passed out and there's like, you know, dope pipes everywhere and all that. So like, my oldest, went through the most

Melanie Madison:

For sure.

Linnsey Dolson:

in that sense. But like, each of my children

Melanie Madison:

Went through their own trauma. Yeah.

Linnsey Dolson:

Yeah. Because based on on my addiction or even, here's an example of, I mean, Melanie's biological dad she never met and because he was the drug dealer that I got pregnant by. He dropped me off at the hospital and took off. So peace out. Yeah.

Linnsey Dolson:

He literally dropped me off at the hospital and took off. And so it's like, you know, those are other things I feel guilty about is like, I wish I would have picked a better father. But like, also, if things didn't happen the way they happen, like, I wouldn't have you. I wouldn't have Madelyn.

Linnsey Dolson:

I wouldn't have Johnny or Gabe or Daniel or see I wouldn't have any of my babies. So it's like, yeah. Put things in our life and a path and everything built us into who we are today. Like, you know, this girl, I'm gonna have her in a minute sharing about her career. She is fucking phenomenal.

Linnsey Dolson:

This baby is not just smart, beautiful, intelligent, funny, sweet, but she's so talented. And so I want you to spend a few minutes telling us about your career, about the song you recently released. Tell us a little bit about your story behind this song, and then a little bit just a few teasers about the song that's gonna be going to the studio here really soon.

Linnsey Dolson:

Go for it.

Melanie Madison:

We love studio time.

Linnsey Dolson:

Yeah we do. Yes. Go queen.

Melanie Madison:

So my stage name is Melanie Madison. I am a singer songwriter. I recently released a song called Time Flies that I'm very proud of. I feel like this is the most emotional song I ever wrote, and I'm very grateful that through the writing process and all my fellow songwriters, on the whole process on writing it, I wrote it with, David James, my vocal coach, and he helped me wrote it together. He produced it for me, and it was such an incredible experience.

Melanie Madison:

I wrote the song about feeling like time flies way too fast because it really does. It really really does.

Linnsey Dolson:

It does.

Melanie Madison:

It does. So I wrote about time flying and just live in the moment. And a lyric I wrote in it that I really love is, live in the moment before it flies into a memory. Because it was about a quote I saw about stay in the moment before it turns into So a I really loved that. And so I wrote that one.

Melanie Madison:

And speaking of new music, I have a new one that I can't spill-

Linnsey Dolson:

Go girl!

Melanie Madison:

That I can't spill too much on, but I will give you this. It's called Have Your Back. And I wrote it about being there for someone who's going through a really hard time. I actually wrote it about one of my best friends. I'm not gonna say her name, but because she doesn't know what's about her yet.

Melanie Madison:

But I wrote about one of my best friends and about being there for someone when they're going through a really hard time because we live in a rough world. So I feel like we should all just have each other's backs and be there for one another.

Melanie Madison:

Oh, I love that so much.

Melanie Madison:

That's what I wrote the song about.

Linnsey Dolson:

Oh, I love that. Madelyn, do you wanna come on for a few minutes and talk? So Madelyn is 10. Maddie has a business that is a jewelry and bracelet making business that we're gonna be starting. You wanna come over here, queen, and tell them a little bit? Do wanna tell them? Come here. Here.

Linnsey Dolson:

You gotta show the chair with me to be in the camera. Yeah. Yeah. Yay.

Melanie Madison:

Introduce yourself. Can we hear her?

Linnsey Dolson:

Okay. Lean into the mic. Introduce yourself. What's your name?

Madelyn:

I'm Madelyn.

Linnsey Dolson:

And how old are you?

Melanie Madison:

So precious.

Linnsey Dolson:

Tell us a little bit about what you like to do. What what do you do for a hobby? You're an incredible what? Oh, lean into the mic.

Madelyn:

I like to play volleyball.

Linnsey Dolson:

Mhmm.

Melanie Madison:

You're a good dancer.

Melanie Madison:

This girl is the best dancer.

Linnsey Dolson:

I could show her a TikTok video and she'll know the dance in like five minutes. I wish I could remember dancing like her.

Melanie Madison:

Oh, right.

Linnsey Dolson:

Girl, I struggle. These two try to get me to do these dancing trends and I'm like, shit. I forgot the moves already.

Melanie Madison:

Our family's obsessed with the show Dancing With The Stars.

Linnsey Dolson:

Oh, that is our new show,

Melanie Madison:

That's been our new show lately.

Linnsey Dolson:

So what I love is Melanie and Maddie both have that entrepreneur mindset because they see it. And Maddie already started her first business at 10. Yes. So tell us a little bit about your business. What do you sell?

Linnsey Dolson:

Bracelets.

Linnsey Dolson:

And what do they look like? Do you, what kind of bracelets do you make?

Madelyn:

I make like friendship bracelets, they're all different kind of colors. And then I have an account for them on Instagram. It's called all you need is beads and then I'm about to start posting stuff on it because I just made it. But yeah, all I really know what to say.

Linnsey Dolson:

Awesome.

Melanie Madison:

Awesome boos.

Linnsey Dolson:

It's all bracelets. Are you thinking about adding some necklaces or just keeping it all bracelets? What are your thoughts?

Madelyn:

All bracelets.

Linnsey Dolson:

All bracelets? Okay. So we're gonna start doing some videos and then she's gonna get a website. So you guys, I am gonna link her website in the bio of my IG so you can order bracelets. Yes.

Linnsey Dolson:

I'm also gonna link Melanie Madison music to this also because, man, my girls are so incredibly talented and amazing and I'm just so blessed to have you guys.

Melanie Madison:

We're blessed to have you, mom. We love you.

Linnsey Dolson:

I love you. So I have a random question. So what do you think as a 10 year old when you hear mommy talk about like this podcast and about how she used to be and about all that? What what do you think of that? Like, what what is what do you take from that?

Linnsey Dolson:

What do you think it means? What do you think of that? Like, when you hear mommy talk about how they used to be and you see those funny pictures of me and stuff, like, what do you think?

Madelyn:

I mean, I don't think anything. I just I don't know.

Linnsey Dolson:

You just kinda know but not how to explain it? That makes sense. Yeah.

Madelyn:

I know how to explain it, but I don't know. Like, I don't think of anything.

Melanie Madison:

Mom's just there?

Madelyn:

Yeah.

Linnsey Dolson:

I love that. No different. I love you. I'm grateful So for tell him your Instagram and how to find you on Instagram right now.

Madelyn:

It's called Live with Madelyn.

Linnsey Dolson:

Live with Madelyn. Okay. Perfect. Isn't there some underscores in there? Live_With_Madelyn?

Linnsey Dolson:

Mhmm. Yeah.

Madelyn:

But it would show up.

Linnsey Dolson:

Underscore with underscore Madeline. Yep. Yep. Perfect. Love it.

Linnsey Dolson:

And then how did they find you?

Melanie Madison:

You can find me melaniemadisonmusic on TikTok and Instagram.

Linnsey Dolson:

Perfect. And where did they find your music? You can find

Melanie Madison:

me on Spotify and all stream platforms melaniemadison.

Linnsey Dolson:

Love you guys. Love you. Bye.